Michele Ferrari

Michele Ferrari ( born March 26, 1953 in Ferrara ) is an Italian sports doctor who has become known for sporting fraud by doping. In the cycling scene, he has been known for years as " Dottore EPO". He has been accused several times in Italy, since he acted with illegal pharmaceuticals. He became internationally known mainly through the supply Lance Armstrong of doping preparations.

Career

Ferrari began as a student of Professor Francesco Conconi, is beginning to be investigated because of the drug- related offenses. Later left Ferrari Conconis Institute in Ferrara, the " epicenter of the Italian doping " ( Gazzetta ), and started his own business. Until recent years, Ferrari and Prof. Conconi were considered the ( sports medicine ) driving forces behind the successful Italian endurance athletes in skiing, running and just in cycling. Conconi and Ferrari were already long been suspected to have made their charges quickly with EPO. The prestigious French daily newspaper Le Monde called Conconi once the "father of EPO ". Ferrari compared in an interview once the danger of EPO with the orange juice ( " It's all a matter of dosage ").

Various violations of the anti-doping law Michele Ferrari is / was accused in several methods. In the fall of 2004, he was sentenced in Bologna for sports fraud to one year probation, also a prohibition of eleven months was imposed. At that time, Ferrari had a list of 23 well-known customers from the scene: Lance Armstrong, Alessandro Bertolini, Gianluca Bortolami, Gianni Bugno, Mario Cipollini, Claudio Chiappucci, Armand de Las Cuevas, Fernando Escartín, Gianni Faresin, Giorgio Furlan, Ivan Gotti, Andreas Kappes, Kevin Livingston, Eddy Mazzoleni, Axel Merckx, Abraham Olano, Daniele Pontoni, Tony Rominger, Paolo Savoldelli, Filippo Simeoni, Pavel Tonkov, Enrico Zaina and Beat Zberg.

Lance Armstrong had tried to keep his connection to Ferrari secret. But a search of the " Sunday Times " brought the secret finally revealed. The Americans called the Dottore as a " man of honor ", but officially ended the collaboration, as this has been sentenced. In the process Ferrari was heavily burdened by the Italian cyclist Filippo Simeoni, who told minutely how the sports medicine works. Ferrari's motto has always been: Just what comes in the controls, is doping. " Ferrari has instructed me to use in the morning before a control Emagel and on the eve of an expected control albumin to thin the blood if the hematocrit was greater than 50 ," Simeoni said, among other things. The Italian was reprimanded and bullied in the race due to his testimony by Armstrong.

Neither driver was, however, tested positive. After the heavy doping allegations against sports doctor Michele Ferrari to the Italian Olympic Committee CONI has converted the physician subject to a lifetime ban as a trainer and a sports physician. The Italian doctor Luigi Cecchini Sport is regarded as his students.

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